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When the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza reopened last week after months of closure, it was presented as a cautious humanitarian step under the second phase of a cease-fire framework. But
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As Bangladesh heads into a closely watched national election, one of its most controversial political forces is attempting a dramatic repositioning. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, long associated with religious conservatism and historical baggage dating
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Japan is once again confronting one of the most sensitive questions in its postwar history: whether to revise the Constitution that has defined the nation’s pacifist identity for nearly eight decades. Newly
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The mutual hostility between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other since the 1978 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the unique political system known as
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In recent times, India has entered into trade agreements with several countries, with the latest being the agreements between the European Union and India, and between the US and India. Everyone in
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The majestic presence of Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda and Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke, though now more than 16 years after that historic victory, represented the
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Pakistan is grappling with an alarming surge of violence along ethnic and sectarian lines. On February 6, 2026, a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the Khadija al-Kubra Imambargah in Islamabad killed
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In this interview, former Bangladeshi ambassador Mohammad Harun Al Rashid delivers a blunt assessment of the political upheaval in his country, describing recent developments as “not merely political regression; it is civilizational
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Consciousness, at its basic level, is an individual’s self-awareness, comprising both external and internal phenomena; it may constitute any kind of cognition, experience, feeling, or perception. Awareness can be a continuously changing continuum, or it may shut down
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On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being
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Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence that the first humans to inhabit the High Arctic were not merely surviving at the edge of the world, but actively transforming it. Newly discovered archaeological sites
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On February 6, 2025, at least 36 Shia worshippers were killed and more than 169 sustained injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Khadijah al-Kubra Imambargah (Shia place of worship) in
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